3.8kg. Pick the Reaper up in one hand and a €120 scooter in the other, and the difference is obvious before either one touches the ground. That gap is the whole point of this scooter, because weight is what decides whether a child learns a tailwhip or quietly stops trying.
Light scooters teach tricks, heavy ones do not
A tailwhip asks the deck to travel a full circle around the headtube and arrive back under the rider’s feet, in the air, inside about half a second. Every extra hundred grams makes that harder to start and harder to catch. Somewhere near 4kg is where the trick shifts from difficult to discouraging for a child who weighs thirty kilos themselves, and the Reaper sits on the right side of that line. The North Satisfact, at 4.6kg, sits on the other side, which is why that one suits a bigger and stronger rider.
Aircraft-grade aluminium is a loose phrase that covers a wide family of alloys, so ignore it and look at the scales instead. The number is good.
The wheel upgrade is what makes it last
110mm wheels are the default across the whole category. What the Reaper adds is room to go to 120mm later, provided you change the brake at the same time, and that is worth knowing when you compare it against cheaper scooters that are stuck at 110mm for life.
Bigger wheels roll faster and carry across cracked tarmac and cobble-effect paving without stopping dead. More to the point, they are the upgrade a twelve year old asks for when the scooter starts feeling slow, and being able to answer that with €50 of wheels rather than €200 of scooter is the difference between this lasting four years and lasting two.
Who should not buy it
The 84cm bar sets the floor. On an eight year old of average height that lands about the ribs, which is right. On a six year old it lands at the chest, which is wrong, and enthusiasm does not fix geometry. Small riders should be looking at the Longway Adam Pro instead.
The other person who should walk away is the parent of a child who scoots now and again. €182.95 buys performance that only reveals itself to someone riding several times a week and attempting things they cannot yet do. If the scooter mostly goes up and down the road outside the house, the Chilli Base does that identically and leaves €58 in your pocket.
There is one more group. A heavy fifteen year old who lands hard and breaks things will get more out of chromoly bars and a one-piece deck, even at the cost of weight. That is the North.
The right rider here is eight to twelve, already comfortable, working on the first spinning tricks, and going to the park because they want to rather than because they were brought.